2018 Autonomy Workshop: Presentations and Videos
Updated: December 13, 2018 – Presentation videos and PDFs made available
Watch the live stream video of the workshop
| Approx. Time | Wednesday, October 10 Location: Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3305 | Presenter | |
| 8:15 | Welcome/Introductions | Graham Mackintosh (BAERI/NASA) | Video |
| 8:25 | Welcome to CMU | David Wettergreen (CMU) | Video |
| 8:40 | Message from NASA Leadership | Thomas Zurbuchen (NASA) | Video |
| 9:00 | NASA Programmatic Overview | Michael Seablom (NASA) | Video |
| 9:05 | Keynote Speaker from Industry | Gur Kimchi (Amazon) | |
| 10:00 | Autonomy in NASA – Past/Present/Future | Rob Manning | Video |
| 11:15 | Design Reference Mission (DRM) Definition | Michael Seablom (NASA) | Video |
| DRM Overview | DRM Leads, 5 minutes each | ||
| 11:20 | Moon | Emerson Speyerer (Arizona State University) | Video | PDF |
| 11:25 | Small Bodies | Issa Nesnas (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 11:30 | Venus | Pat Beauchamp (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 11:35 | Ocean Worlds | Tom Cwik (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 11:40 | Earth/Heliophysics | Mike Little (NASA) | Video | PDF |
| 11:45 | Astrophysics | Rudra Mukherjee (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 11:50 | Mars | Jen Eigenbrode (NASA) and Eric Lyness (NASA) | Video | PDF |
| Lunch | |||
| 13:00 | Autonomy Overview | Terry Fong (NASA) | Video |
| 14:45 | Panel: Engaging and Innovating Through Collaboration: NASA/Industry/Academia | Jenn Gustetic (NASA) – moderator Bob Touchton (Leidos) John Thornton (Astrobotic) David Gump (Space Resources Consultant) | Video |
| 16:00 | Panel: Autonomy in the Wild: NASA/Industry/Academia | Terry Fong (NASA) – moderator Michael Wagner (Edge Case Research) David Wettergreen (CMU) Lute Maleki (Cruise Automation) Steve Chien (NASA) | Video |
| Student Lightning Talks | |||
| 17:00 | Laika and Belka: Walking Robots with Flexible Spines | Andrew Sabelhaus (University of California, Berkeley) | Video | PDF |
| 17:05 | Multi-Arm Bandits for Automated Decision Making | Steve McGuire (Colorado University, Boulder) | Video | PDF |
| 17:10 | Convex Optimization-Baser Approaches for Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization | Abhishek Cauligi (Stanford University) | Video | PDF |
| 17:15 | Belief Space Planning for Reducing Terrain Relative Localization Uncertainty in Noisy Elevation Maps | Eugene Fang (Carnegie Mellon University) | Video | PDF |
| 17:20 | Multi-Agent Optimal Guidance and Control | Rebecca Foust (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | Video | PDF |
| 17:25 | Shared Mental Models for Human-Robot Teaming in Space | Felix Gervits (Tufts University) | Video | PDF |
| 17:30 | Quantum Computing at NASA | Bryan O’Gorman (University of California, Berkeley and NASA Ames) | Video | PDF |
| 17:35 | Nonprehensile Terrain Manipulation on Planetary Exploration Rovers | Catherine Pavlov (Carnegie Mellon University) | Video | PDF |
| 17:40 | Cost Function Design for Planning in Robotic Systems | Ellis Ratner (University of California, Berkeley) | Video | PDF |
| 17:45 | Fully Adaptive Atmospheric Sensor on a 6U CubeSat and STARS: A Software Simulation Toolkit for Adaptive Sensing | Jakob DeLong (Ohio State University) | Video | PDF |
| Approx. Time | Thursday, October 11 Location: Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3305, unless otherwise indicated | Presenter | |
| 8:00 | Welcome/recap/clarification of goals | Michael Seablom (NASA) | Video |
| 8:10 | Software Risk and Autonomy | Phil Koopman (CMU) | |
| 9:10 | Goals of DRM Breakout Discussions | Florence Tan (NASA) | |
| 9:15 | DRM Breakout Discussions | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 12:45 | DRM Breakout Discussions | ||
| DRM Groups Report Out | DRM Leads, 15 minutes each | ||
| 14:45 | Moon | Emerson Speyerer (Arizona State University), Terry Fong (NASA), et al | Video | PDF |
| 15:00 | Venus | Pat Beauchamp (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 15:15 | Mars | Jen Eigenbrode (NASA) and Eric Lyness (NASA) | Video | PDF |
| 15:30 | Heliophysics | Larry Kepko (NASA) | Video | PDF |
| 15:45 | Astrophysics | Rudra Mukherjee (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 16:05 | Earth | Mike Little (NASA) | Video | PDF |
| 16:20 | Small Bodies | Issa Nesnas (NASA JPL) and Tim Swindle (University of Arizona) | Video | PDF |
| 16:35 | Ocean Worlds | Tom Cwik (NASA JPL) | Video | PDF |
| 17:05 | Closing Remarks | Michael Seablom (NASA) | Video |
| 17:13 | Acknowledgements | Florence Tan (NASA) | Video |
| 17:30 | Demonstration of multiple autonomous flying vehicles |
